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Our Saviour, Our Heritage
Our Joyful Responsibility
A Brief History of the Church of Our Saviour: Part I
As we prepare to celebrate 150 years of God's faithfulness in and through the Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands, we will retrace the history of the parish which has given so much to us. Your Sr. Warden, Laurie Kelly has graciously distilledAugusta Adams book, The Church of Our Saviour Oatlands into five brief articles. As you come to know more of the history which has preserved for you a faithful community wherein the Scriptures preside as supreme, the Gospel of Christ is preach unabashedly, and the Anglican spiritual tradition is kept, please consider how it is that you are being called by God to steward this heritage.
In Christ,
Jonathan+
Introduction
I volunteered to write this short narrative of our Church history because it is a compelling story. Our churchâs history is replete with names, events, and dates, the most important of which I have attempted to include here. But embedded in that factual narrative is what I believe is the more important story: the story of a parish with an indomitable soul and an enduring commitment to traditional Anglican worship. This short narrative is a derivative work. I have relied overwhelmingly on the documentation of events in Augusta Adamsâ 2001 book and I used interviews with members, newspaper articles and other sources to reconstruct the events that took place in more recent years.
Part One Å The Earliest Years
The parishâs beginnings are not well documented. We know it began humbly, probably in a log cabin on the Oatlands Plantation. That log cabin seems to have had various functions -- a church on Sundays and a schoolhouse, a general store, and smithy on other days. It was the only place of worship in a radius of about five miles; it served Episcopalians and anyone else who wished to worship there.
The earliest
church records date from January 1871 when the Reverend Sewall S. Hepburn(pictured right) received a call to assist the Reverend Richard Terrell Davis, Rector of St. James Church, Leesburg. Rev. Hepburn was assigned a ministry that encompassed an area of about 15 x 24 miles and his congregations included Christ Church Goresville (now Lucketts), Catoctin Union Church near Hamilton, and Oatlands. Records indicate that Rev. Hepburn preached twice monthly at each of the small churches and at St. James. He noted in an 1875 report to the Diocese that the Oatlands congregation had increased to the point that they were planning to build a brick church and he feared that twice-monthly services were insufficient to sustain the
congregation.
Mr. George Carter (pictured left), then-owner of Oatlands Plantation, funded the building of a church on the property with about $700 in cash and materials (about $17,300 in todayâs dollars).The congregation raised additional funds through âfairs and strawberry festivalsâ and acquired more donated materials. Rev. Davis oversaw the building of the new church that began in 1876.
The original shape of the building (pictured above) was a simple rectangle with a pitched roof. Notably, there was no cross over the bell tower Å such adornments were allegedly considered âpope-ishâ Å and it was feared that the bishop might refuse to consecrate the church if there were a cross inside or atop the building.However, the builders had placed a cross in brick relief over the front door.
The Most Reverend Francis M. Whittle, Bishop of Virginia, consecrated the Church of Our Saviour at Oatlands on August 21, 1878.By this time, Rev. Hepburn retired and Rev. Davis again took on the duty at Oatlands in addition to his duty at St. James. By providence, an English clergyman named Reverend Mr. Donaldson settled in the Oatlands community. He began presiding at services when Rev. Davis was preaching elsewhere. For the first time, with the services of the two ministers, the Oatlands church held weekly worship services. Mr. Donaldson eventually presided full time. He established a fund out of collection-plate donations that acquired the churchâs first organ.
Hard times followed. Rev. Davis died in 1893 and the church lost its longtime advocate. In 1897, the George Carter family who had supported the parish from its beginning, sold the Plantation House for financial reasons and moved to Little Oatlands.
[1] The Reverend Samuel Sewall Stavely Hepburn Sr. (1845-1932) is the grandfather of the actress Katherine Hepburn. See https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-Samuel-Hepburn-Sr/6000000005071007578.
[2] Later, a cross appeared atop the bell tower that was eventually removed when repairs were made to the bell tower. The cross was never replaced.
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